Leah Feiger
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1,503 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Leah Feiger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I will go visit it.
We'll also talk about how some members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, used AI to actually shape housing policy.
And we're going to check in on the disease sweeping the nation, cyclosporiasis, which is causing, quote unquote, turbo diarrhea across the country.
Look, this is so much to me, the grassroots versus the billionaire, but it's all from within the same company, which is, we talk about Silicon Valley sometimes as a monolith, but it is so clearly not a monolith.
You have so many different people at different rungs and
And I was really taken with the fact that, like, one of the largest donors was a research engineer.
He gave 200K, research engineer Juan Felipe Saron Rube, and he gave 200K and has spent years working on the company's strategies for mitigating potential societal harms caused by AI.
I would love to see a performance review.
Of him after all of this is done.
And I actually really do wonder if people are nervous about this.
I are there.
Are there stopgaps, Zoe, like at these kinds of companies to prevent perhaps a more Trump aligned manager from taking it out on a more liberal coded person, especially when this is playing out financially, like in political races and will certainly have impact.
Speaking of AI and politics, I'm going to talk about one of my favorite topics, as always, DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, started by Elon Musk.
It's still in the news and it is in the news for a very specific reason for us this week, which is we can't get more news out about it.
Members of Doge who are working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, used AI to inform policy decisions.
This is something that we were reporting on and figured out last year.
But now the agency appears to be denying Freedom of Information Act requests for information on the development and the use of the AI tools and the way they actually informed these policy decisions.
This all came out according to documents obtained by a FOIA request from Democracy Forward, which is a nonprofit legal organization.
And it's pretty concerning.
You would assume that like a year after some of this dust has settled, that we'd be able to get a little bit more information.
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